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OS - Travel medicine and tropical medicine

Class at Second Faculty of Medicine |
DVA1032

Syllabus

Optional subject for 5th year

Term: 23.11. - 27.11.2020

Beginning: 14,00 p.m.

Place: Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Na Bulovce, Budínova 2, Prague 8

Number of students: at least 5, maximum 20

Prerequisite: Internal Medicine, Pharmacology, Microbiology, Epidemiology

Practice: demonstration of patients with imported diseases or travel history (if they are just hospitalized)

Teachers: as. MUDr. František Stejskal, Ph.D., Department of Infectious Diseases, 2nd Medical Faculty as. MUDr. Milan Trojánek, Ph.D. ,Department of Infectious Diseases, 2nd Medical Faculty as. MUDr. Helena Ambrožová, Ph.D., Department of Infectious Diseases, 2nd Medical Faculty

Lectures and seminars:

• Introduction to travel medicine, international travel and health risks, infectious and non-infectious health problems, travellers‘ vaccinations. (Dr. Trojánek)

• Traveller‘s diarrhoea: etiology, prevention and management. ( Dr. Trojánek)

• Fever after return from the tropics: etiology, differential diagnosis, clinical management. (Dr. Stejskal)

• Arboviral infections (dengue, chikungunya, Zika), viral hemorhagic fevers (yellow fever, Ebola, Lassa), other important viral infections (MERS-CoV, poliomyelitis, rabies, measles). (Dr. Trojánek)

• The most important parasitic infections in tropical and subtropical regions. Malaria (diagnostics, treatment, prophylaxis). Other tropical parasitic infections. (Dr. Stejskal)

• Tropical bacterial infections: enteric fever, relapsing fever, plague, anthrax, brucellosis, melioidosis. Rickettsial infections. ( Dr. Stejskal)

• Differential diagnostics of tropical skin lessions.

• Differential diagnostics of tropical lung and liver diseases.

Literature: Beaching N.: Tropical Medicine: Lecture Notes, 2014, Wiley Blackwell, 7th ed.

Brent A., Davidson R., Seale A.: Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicin, 2014, Oxford Medical Handbooks, 4th ed.